be Ready

"Be ready!" I can hear football coaches, Army Sergeants and Boy Scout leaders everywhere shouting out that command. Being ready is a state of being. It would be futile to show up to a football game walk onto the field and tell the coach "I’m ready, put me in." He would look at you in your street clothes, your out of shape condition, your lack of understanding of the plays, your obliviousness to the culture of the team and shout one thing…."SECURITY!" That seems reasonable to think that is how it would go for a simple everyday football game yet Christians everywhere shrug their shoulders at getting ready and think "Meh! It doesn’t matter." Yet our word tells us something quite different. So today we look at the things we need to be READY for and what constitutes readiness. So, get ready because here it comes…